Director of Product Control

About this role:

The Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Product Control for Wells Fargo’s division is in need of a critical leader who is responsible for overseeing financial integrity and risk management across all CIB businesses: Markets, Banking, and Commercial Real Estate (CRE). This professional will partner closely with Front Office, Risk, and Finance leadership to ensure accurate P&L attribution, balance sheet integrity, daily P&L (comprehensive and Clean), and compliance with Wells Fargo’s policies, U.S. GAAP, and regulatory standards.

This leader will drive a robust control framework, enable business growth, and contribute to Wells Fargo’s strategic priorities of risk excellence, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the Product Control function across CIB, managing senior product controllers covering Markets, Banking, and CRE.
• Serve as a strategic partner to CIB leadership, supporting business growth while upholding Wells Fargo’s strong risk and control culture.
• Contribute to Wells Fargo’s and CIB’s transformation agenda by championing technology, data, and process improvements across Product Control.
• Ensure accurate and timely daily and monthly P&L reporting, balance sheet substantiation, and appropriate P&L attribution across all CIB products.
• Partner with the Front Office and Risk on new product assessments, ensuring appropriate control frameworks are in place.
• Build and maintain a strong risk and control environment in line with Wells Fargo’s risk management framework and expectations from key regulators (e.g., OCC, FRB, FDIC).
• Act as a key liaison for regulatory and audit inquiries related to valuation, P&L attribution, and control processes, ensuring transparency and proactive issue management.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Product Control team, fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture that aligns with Wells Fargo’s values.
• Drive initiatives to standardize, automate, and optimize Product Control processes, leveraging technology and data to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Finance, Risk, Technology, and the businesses to enhance the control framework, reporting capabilities, and analytical insights.
• Manage and develop two or more specialized teams of managers and individual contributors responsible for highly complex, higher risk financial advisory services impacting one more Business Lines companywide
• Focus on delivering cross functional solutions for the business groups based on financial research and economic research that may have critical impact on the long-term business performance
• Identify opportunities for efficient and effective support in providing key finance services such as management reporting, product pricing, research for key metric forecasting, validation and support various financial viability assessments
• Supervise the success of large, companywide complex projects and initiatives
• Lead finance team by making strategic decisions to resolve issues with high critical impact in order to bring success to the enterprise
• Provide guidelines for compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and works with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals including senior leadership
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in Finance
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Finance experience or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Product Control, Finance, or Risk within a large Corporate & Investment Bank.
• Deep expertise in financial products, particularly across Markets.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, fair value accounting, regulatory frameworks (e.g., Basel, CCAR), and valuation principles.
• Proven leadership skills with experience managing large, geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Track record of successfully managing complex control environments and driving transformation

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
• This position does not offer VISA sponsorship

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.

$215,000.00 - $355,000.00

Posting End Date:

9 Oct 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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